LAPD information technology bureau officer Jim Stover demonstrates the use of the body camera during a media event displaying the new body cameras to be used by the Los Angeles Police Department in Los Angeles, California August 31, 2015. REUTERS/Al Seib/Pool

African-Americans, who constitute 6 percent of the population in California, account for 17 percent of all arrests in the state, according to data released Wednesday by the California Department of Justice. It also showed that juvenile arrests among blacks were considerably higher than those among whites. The data released on the Open Justice website, launched Wednesday,…